The Sun. — London, England, 1810-04-26 00:00:00

COIiONEWS I A Q UEST. An ing ,, est was held on Tuesday at the White Horse pnbhc house, in Gilbert-street, Clare-market, by 0 is TlitiNy GHIA., _Esq. Coroner tor We s tm i n s t er , ', lt h . ," - 0(ely 6'l Janes CoWling,va deserter flour] the ?t . -.. NVi:st Lou,c.ii, • Mihtia, in which he was a private, who cut his throat with a razor at 'the abO v e h ouse on. Monday atieryoon. . The - first witness called was William Hefflet, a corporal of the 4th ci4ll- . pan v, in the West- • London Militia. ' The witness' stated, that, .osi Monday lasi, he went into the Crooked Billet public-house, in Portsmouth-Stre e t, in-the parish of St—Giles ; he saw the deceased, 'sitting there, and recdguized hirn.as a deserter be . longing to the 2,1 .company of ,the West London Militia, from which he had deserted , five or six lin.zi:liS ago. The witness addressed the deceased, and said, " Cowling, how da ydt. do ? how do you dor . said the deceased, in answer, calling the wit - -. • nessby his name, and laid du, u a pipe of tobacco which he was smoking at the time, and went out of the house The witness tolioweo ann, and called to him, - in Sheffield -street, Clare-market ; th e d ec ea se d , . . stopped, and the wiliness said, " where are you a going ?" the deceased answered, " to a friend round the corner." Toe witness told him he must . not part with him, as he was a deserter , from the regi ment ; and he 'dust= follow him. The deceased an swere, , that his friend had settled alt that business; and that he was AO pay the aOl. to-morrow (meaning r!sterday) ior his dischiirge. The witness asked hits where his friend lived I'The deceased answ , red, " Round the corner of Gilbert-street ;" and be went into a tin shop. 'The witness following. him into the passage, the deceased said, " I have made a tnis taket IS nOt the right house ;" and they came out together ; the deceased went into the adjoining hoUse, the White Horse, in Gilbert -street. Toe laid Bold Or his apron, before he got into the vlss-ige he did not use any force,- but said— You must net conic in here." The deeased said, he must go in to see F his friend, and Went to the foot of the -stairs, the witness keeping close to him, but finding the staircase dark, the witness said you most not go up, and a second time laid hold of his apron„ and perceived the deceased fum ble in his pocket, at ,I,vlfich he, the witness, was very. much terrified, thinking he was going to dO something to hitu : the deceased got about five stairs up, the witness still holding Kittle part of. his garment, at aims' length, and obseried him take surd tilling Gut of his pocket, and put hi s - ha n d towards throat, and immediately afterwards the witness heard something kltng ou iliestairs, tike ties ps of _water; out iMagining it was blood, he `(the Wi,nes.) became alame 1, card coll,d out for assistance._ The first , person that earue was the maid-st:ivant belonging to the house. witness said to Ler, " for;God's sake Call some assistance, for Lan. , !ini.l th.. t . tatt sort.e mischief to 'himself." The . yoong WoLna:fh:-Ing ten tide:f did not say at.y thing. 'The witness eau to the tap-rootn, and desired the , landlord and another 11,511 to come. They went and brought the deceased down ii.tolhe passage. He had a razor, covert d with blood, and • a'case, which he held tight in his right hand. he was brougi,t down, be p2initrd to Corporal Hurl t, and said," that is - the wan." He was taken to St. Clement's Workhouse. w i lham Wilion, the landlord; said, that about three or four &clock, on M..nday afternoo n fast, as he was• in his bar, he perCeived two Men g ling along his passage towatus the s tair s ; h e d i d n ,t see their faces ; the witness toid hisirtraid-str , vont to go pnd'inquire what they wanted ; the two men had got about five steps up the s!aircase ; the servant returned into tire bar, and drn;ped down in a fit. Th e witness wept .up five steps of t he slain; he found the deceased leaning .against the bannisters, and brought him down in his arms in to ,the passage : he perceived some blood issue from his mouth, and some coming through his neck handkerchief. He also perceived a razor, covered , with - Hood, and a razor-case in his righ4 hand,; while a chair wip procured, the deceased, pointing to Corporal Hufflet, said, " That is the nian, that is, the man," aud spoke no more, but threw the ra zor and case away. Ibe witness .sent round the neighbourhood for surgiCal assistance, and even went himself, bat could not procure any. He then as sisted to take the man to St. Clement's workh ouse , where surgi..al assistance w s imrnedi tely procured, but the wind -pipe was divided, as well as the jugu lar rein, and he expired about ten minutes atter be „hid b..en taken into the workhouse; the Jury.re turned a verdict of self murder, by cutting his thruLl with a l'azor..' Th.- dceased had desegted sevcral times from th e regiment, and lately wa.., employed as a porter to an 'upholsterer in Moor-fields; he was about forty -five yea's of ace, and has left a wife and Iwo children, , The Officers appoint( d to execute the disguiting ceretor oy,ot drivtoga stake through the dead body of Jams Cowhog, very properly delayed the busi ness until - twelve o'clock last rnght, when the de- Ceased was buried in the,cross roads at the end of Blackwore-street, next Clare-warket. • . A melancholy accident happned.On Monday, at Temple, th.! .seat of Own Williams, Esq.—Two Gentlemen and t - Wo Ladies ventured, for the autra , .ement; into •a boat, upon the mill stream, at a short distance from the %viers. .They Vere at first so ins,nsibry drawn towards the sluic&ts, that they did not perceive their danger. A s . thly approached them, the ioree of,the curlent baffled their, etforts to dire6t the boat,..and they were carris.d upon them. One of the Gentlemen lea d ed out on the batl with the chain in Lis hand, and encleav , nred to pull the boat from/thr .opening of the sluice.. but . t"t;e torrent wawirreiistiole, and his strength tie til d nothing ; the boat tiled, instantaneous!4 sunk,, and way: da.h ed to pieces. In a few -seconds t•o of the p appParei at some distance sUliggling in the streatir,_ which soon threw them on a shoal in the mido - le of the ri% er. , The third, a young Lady, sister of Mrs. Whams, rose no more. The Lady and Gentle , man so proidentialiy .aved have not suq.-1.11-cl any material injury, except in their tell share of that deep atllithon. which. - overwhelms the u..hole fa . wily. • BRISTOL dqsizEs. THE KING I'. allt HENRY Lirmcoi.t. The following report of this trial is copied frOrri The Bristol Mercury. • Wednesday Sir Henry Lippincott, Bart. was 'tried, on the prosecution of Mary Milford, spinster, (aged about seveutern),for the violation.of her. pen, soh ; to Which he pleaded Kot The case, on the part of the prosecutrix, was °Repeal by Mr. - SMITH ; and the evi-ence detailed by the prosecutrix. appeared, in a vary modest and prepossessing manner, to develope a sr eae of much depravity. She stated that on Sunday, the 31st of DecelOber last, in, company with another youit woman of the name of Mary Jones, as they were going to the Cathedral, between 3 and - 4 o'clock, as she supposed to evening prayers, Mary Jones stop ped to speak to two gentlemen--one in regimentals, the other not ; that Mair Jones shortly ovettoak the prosecutrix, and instead of leading her into the Catheiral, conducted her through the arch leading . into the Cloisters ; that they a ent up, a - flight of stairs, and Mary Jones led her into a room whiCh had a sofa in it, and that, until she arrived in th it room, sire was not aware but that she was going into the Cathedial ; that immediately .afterwards the same two gentlemen Jones had previously spo ken to "(who proved to be Sir Henry Lippincott and a Caption Gregory), entered - the room ; ftat Cap tain Gregcry proposed to Mary Jones to go with him to his room to dress; that Captain Gregory and Maty Jones len•her ; that Sir Henry then. be gan to take bberves with her person ; that she resisted him ; that he °tiered her money, two gui neas, which she refused ; that he the(' proceeded to acts of violence; tht he held both her hands be hind her b) the wrists ; that after using every effort to extricate herself, after making evely noise in her power, cra ing out tied steeping with her feet, she at last fainted away, and he accomplis'ied his pur pose. That immediately on quitting the room, she informed Mary Jones of what had passed, who censured her for not communicating it wi ilst in the room ; that the 's ame evening she informed a Mrs. Sarah Janes (a witneSa, who could not, we un derstand, be found) and on the following day made a similar communication to Mrs. Roberts, (the keeper of a huckster's shop on the Back, and with whom she lodged), also to Sophia Jones, the sister of Mary Jones ; .that on the Monday se'Onight,. after the Niolatipn, the prosecutrix, accompanied by Sophia Jones, met Sir Henry in College-green, in the evening ; that he laid hold of her, and in quired now she did that she replied by upbraiding him with having used her ill enough already.— That Sir Henry thereupon flung her into the arms of a lusty gentleman passing by, and said, " here, take this lass—l was intimate with her yesterday , se'nnight.--The above ti&s were d e li vere d b y ' the yea log - worn with much seeming relodance, and alter touch entreaty by the Learned Recorder and her Coons 1. She then Underwent a long crosssex arninatioa, in which she positively denied that she bad ever said she had not fainted away, or that she. had ever talked of money as a remuneration for the .it jury she had sustained . Mr. Short, surgeon, bore testimony to an ap pearance of her person having been violated, which lie observed, on examinat ion, ten days afterw * ards. On the part of Sir Henry, it was sworn by Mary Jones, that- the room into which she 113,1 retired with Captain Gregory was not more than eight feet dis tance from the drawing-room ; that ,she heard no noise ; that she returned to the drawitig-room iii about ten minutes, and found Mary - Miltbrd lying on (ter bonnet ; that she did not appear discomposed or agitated, and that she sat upon Captain Gregory's knee. 'fins witness pro%ed the door to have been locked on the ptosecutrix, and that the carpet and sofa were rumpled. Here Mr. Thompsos; attempted to cross-examine the witness, as to the prosecutrix having informed her of the violence complained .of, after she quitted the apartment ; but the Learned Recorder consi dered it unnecessary, inasmuch as that part of the evi deoce stood onimpeached ; and'neit tier Mrs. Roberts nor Sophia Jones were examined as to this point, ' SQphia Jones - deposed, :that Mary Milford had told liar, in-a suos,quent conversation,' that Sit Henry had not violated her person ; and that she had, at Milford's request, applied to Sir Henry for pecuniary recompence, She, however, Admitted, that she bad not made such statement at the Coun cil-house, when she gave her information, and con firmed the prosecuirix's evidence of having met Sir Henry on the Monday, when he flung her- into the arms of a r lusty gentleman, with this addition, that the prosecUtrix called Sir Henry a villain, and that he used .the expression above'stated. Captain Gregory Was minutely examined as to any noise' in the house, and the apps arance of Mary Milford on his return to the room. He swore that_ .he heard no poise, and that, on his return, the pro secutrix appeared not discomposed. On being cross examined, he admitted that lie found the door lock ed upon Mary Milford, and that when he entered the room, Sir Henry said, "she would not consent .to. his being connected with her, nor receive money, although he had offered it." Mrs. Roberts (who was originally before the Ma gistrates, a . witness in support of the prOSeeUtlOn)- deposed,, that in .several contersaiions with her oil, the subjeet, Mary Miltbrd hall' used frequent equi vocations ; aid that s he had said, she believed she had not fainted ; that she, Mrs. Robert's, had fe rpent,ly cautioned her ; against keeping company with Mary Jones, who was " a woman given to the town ;" and that during a visit that she (Milford had raid in Lond , ,n, in August, she had heard that t, e. Duke of Gordon would be obliged to pay 3000 . for such p. h. 5 nesss, whether the atteinpt could be proved or,uot. It shou:d - )e observed that h:ipr.:vionsly denied all this, in her cross examination. Mr. Allard, Mr. Lowe, and Mr.- Taylor,, (of "VS,Totton'-under-Edgc), were cubed upon to . rebui the eviderc,: of Mr. Short. Alter an irnprtial charge from the Recorder, The Jr-ii cow . ultei ab , ,ut a minute, ankreturn .ed a verdict of —Noi The R..ei!rcier,.iii Conou•iion, observed, that whilst he rtj,,iced in the acquittal of the prisoner, be could clot c. , sides .mny sari of censure due to' those who ,couduct c d the pros:Tution. afJJ) • eItiIiVISIND, APRIL 24. Arrived—the Nelson,. Herberts, from St. Vincent's; Si r Sidney Smith, Branstord, from Rio Janeiro; Dart, cimib, from Madeira; Grinson Wilson, front Jamaic a; a ll ‘ l dhu! Robert, Crazily, from Malta. Sailed—the Phoenix, !lose, tram Surinam. IJIRJHS On Sunday last, at Cheltenham, the Lady of Thorna s 1 wining, Esq. of a I.)auglitet. (hi Monday last, at his house in George-stri/et, flanoi . er• s9uare, the Lady of bolus Cope, Esq. of a Sun. On Tuesday last, at Belsize ltimpstead, the Lady of William Everett, E s q, of Russell-square, °fa Son. MARRIED. 1. 0111)6N 1 ' , Lied b.. I CH. RI) HARRIS, or tqc). 4, :I:lhrtiett-court, Bow -street; and Po)llshed by WILI 1.-INI A RMIC R SCRIPPS, Soutt, Moltob.street, GroFvenor.squnre. 'At the 'SuN-OFFics, No, 111, Stra f ;d, ic A ;re Advertisements, Order s for the Paper, Letters for the 4ditOr, &C. (post-paid), must bfr, addiessul. On Thursday last, at St. lames's Church, Mr. Brooks, Solicitor, of St. Alban's.street, to Miss M. Ordway, Piccadilly. • • ('n the 24th inst. at Richmond, Surrey, Peter Taylcir Ro• bertson, Esq. Major in•the Bth, or King's own ttegirnc•nt, rn Mary, sixth daughter of the. late Vrce-Admiral Sir Will►am Parker, Bart On Tuesday last, at Great Yeldhain, - Essex, the Rev•, Francis Merewether, Vicar of Haveihill, StitiOlk, to Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Gregory Leeiis Way, Esq. of Spencer Farm. - fately, at Bath, lienjainin Spitta, Esq. of goclors'• Com mons, to Mrs. De Periers, widow of The late Rinaldo llc Periers, of Naples. • Yesterday, at St.-Mary-le-honne Church, Captain James Dacres, ot the Royal Navy, to ,Miss Arabella /1 , 4(1 Dalrym ple, third daughter of Lieutenant-Cencra4 Sir Hew Dalryni. ple. Lately, Stuteville Isaacson, Esq. of Nlilden- Hill, Suffolk.; to Miss St. Quentin, of Hans-place, Broniplon. • WAD. On the 29th ult. at Aladeira, the Hon. Miss Laura kin- On Tuesdav last, at IVoadeord, Charles, the infant son of Captain Charles Pelly, of the Royal Navy.' The same day, at Lincoln, at the advanced age of 83, Mrs. BuLtworth, widow of the late Rev. Dr: 13uckworth, and daughter to the late• Vincent Armotts, of Harrington. Lincolnshire. Yesterday, at her aparttnehts.in St, lathes's Palace; Mrs. Bart°lli, matly years Keeper of the ball-room and other apartments. -T ii . tNk POLICE. MA nsION -Roust .--Yesterday, John ll'alibrd, a delivering potter, and . George and Joseph, two post chaise bOyli, belonging to the Saracen's Head Inn:, Snow-hill, were charged by their mast. 1 4 , Mr. Stephens, the propriet or o f the Inn, with stealing twelve parcels, containing gloces, on Saturday night last, belonging to a person or petsons unknown. John Walford, in his d e fe nce , sated, that, on , Satuiday night, he. found th e paicels,outside of the office door, and that he gave them to George'take • care of until they were inquit ed for. Geoige, in his defence, said, -that, on Saturday night, Watford call e d ,hi m i n t o the stable, ,and asked him to take care of some packages for him.— He wished him to carry .them to his lodgings, and he would call for them the next Mot mog. He' took out his pocket-handkerchief, for the purpose of putting them in, when Walford said, it would not hold them, and inquired, if he. could not get a bag He replied, he had no such ihing ; but he had a horse-cloth in the stable, - which he got, and Walford put the bundles in it, and he carried them to his lodgings. He did not think that they. were stolen. He supposed they were some packages Wal ford had to deliver in the morning, for which he was to receive the profits, for his own benefit. In answer to a question put by tke Lord Mayor, he said, he never had heard that porters at inns were allowed such perquisites. Early on Sunday morning Walford called on him, and asked for the bundles, which he produced. He.then borrowed his knife, and began to cut the the outside covets-, of the parcels. He; the prisoner, George, began to think all was not right. He aked him what they contained ? to which he answered, he b,lieved stockings; oft which the prisoner, Geo•ge, took 31,1 bundle of them, and latd them by for 14ialselifur the purpose, it there cc as any charge brought, they might be the means of clearing him, as he would be enabled to produce them, and tell where the re mainder were. In answer to another - question put by the Lord Mayor, he said, he did nut inform his master, or any other person, of the circumstance. After Watford had stripped the outward co% ers otf, he went away, leaving the bundles behind him.. At eleven, he returned, and told 'hint, that he, George, must remove the bundles to a house, which he pointed Out, as they Were su , pea - ted. He replied, it was a job he had brOught hun into; he took the bundles to the hoUse, but there was not any person at home, He then went to several public-houses, for the Or pose of leaving them, but he could not gain admit tance, it being during service time. At a public house, near London-bridge, he stew a coach4,an go-' ing in a back way. He tollosved him and asked if there were any post-chaise drivers there ? he was answered there were ; and he saw John Alshop, to whom •he delivered the parcels, and told him he would call again for them in the evening, which he would have done if his room had not been broken open by the officers; and the parcel found, which he contended should clear him by its production. He was also taken into custody. The LORD MAYOR informed him he , ought to be • cautious how-he spoke, for he had already made a confession' of giailt, .without being called on ; *he therefore advised. him to. be . silent. Joseph, in ins defence, said, " That Walford had married his sister, on Sunday Morning. Shortly atter the ceremony had been performed, he asked' him to take six parcels, containing six pairs of gloves each, to dispose of for him ?—he said he had bought them, and Wtshe.l to setl them to - the best advan tage. He took them to a Jew in Duke's-place; who only oflered him set en shillings for them; which he refused,. saying, they did not belong to him, and that he was sure the owner would not be satisfied to sell them at so low a rate. 1 then .returned to the lodgings of Walford , ant-found that he and his sister were gone ant to walk ; he then went over London-bridge, and left the bundles at a public house in the Borough. , He saw 'Walford, that . night, who told him not to take any thing like the sum; for he had paid six times m or e f o r them.. On Monday he went to Greenwich fair with a party of friends; on his return ,/ he called for th e parce l s, and as he came over -London-bridge, he was taken into custody." • _ The to - rd Mayor direaled 'that - Mr. Stephens should make every inquiry to find out who the goods belonged to ;. and, until he gained that infor rn.ujon.,.lie• would remand the prisoners for further. examination. Gu ILDHA LL.—Yesterday Jonathan Furlong was to have been brought up for re-'exatnination on a charge of S;A [t appears that - he bad been in the habit of watching the daily newspapers, and whenever he found a r,bbery advertised, he %rote to the persons pLindere& that if they would inclose a tol. note to B. C. at .Lllyd'S Coffee-house, they would be put in the mode of recoveting their property. Several sil - were by this means duped ; and also seve ral cotree-house-keepers. Mr. Nalder, the Deputy Maui al, received notice of it; he attended several . days at Loyd's, but Furlong, knowing him, did not attempt to approach the drawer marked B. C. He was taken -into custody, and remanded for further examination on this day. _ Mr. Haruy, an At , u - ney, attended for him and beuged - of the worthy Alderman presiding, to post pone his exa. , :ination, as his father died, .yesterday," in the King's Benci Prison,• whew his remains lay waiting for interment ; and that he should, on a future day, •be able to produce several witnesses, whose oft-du:tatty thtre could not be a doubt of, and whose evidence would, beyond ail doubt, re stdre the untortt'nate young man to that 'good cha racter which he had been hitherto 'entitled- to: The %otthy ALDERMAN ordered that he should be brought up on this day se'nnight tot re-exa- Mr. Leach, _proprietor .of the London Coff•.•e• house, and several silversmiths, were in t aitiog to prosecute. HAT TON - GARDEN.-Yesterday Mary H0W1072 un derwent an examination, charged by I‘,/Ird James Wiikinsno ou snspicion ot taking from his person in St. Martin's-lt-Grand, '5Ol. in 134nk-notes, the morning ot the 4th inst. one 101. note of Was. stopped at -the Batik ; traced to one Richard Jones, a coachman : in the interim, Branch, the Constable of 'that liberty, secueed the - party, why `was committed for re-examination.—A Gentleman was convicted in the penalty of 405. and costs, for ,forcibly passing the turnpike -gate, •in a one-horse chaise, at Islington ; as was another Gentleman, 0 0 horsebaCk, Qos. and costs, for not 'paying a peony toll, due to John Boulton, of the some turnpike. UNION-HALL —Yesterday, a very long investiga tion took place of Thomas Bolton, his tour • (laugh: tors, and txo sons, charged with a great number O . robberies. The ma i n ev id ence now was t h a t of Sarah Ford, an accomplice. • She gave the. evidence.„ in a very steady w a y as to -hi s cr i m i nality, an d t ha! of the children. On this Mr. EVANCE, the Magi' strate, sent him, and fmr of the children, to 1114 _ County Gaol of S urrey . Th e youngest two of thy. children were sent•to Bermondsey WOrkhouse, they were.tuo young for a county gaol. PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STREET.-YeSterday ham Hart Brahum; who is in custody on a ; charge of robbi ng , Mr..Trunift, on the night n` the 30 t h of Daarch, of his watch, in the Sirai d ' was.brought up to ,the Office , for fUrther eNatni" nation, it being suspected he had committed sr veral other robberies in a.sinalar manlier.. A gentle man ,eho•was robbed in Little Queen-street, Litt coin's-inn-fields, of his watch, by a man running against him; he pursued, and nearly came up will' bin), bUt another accomplice gave him a violen t blow, which knccked him down. The prisoner resembled the man who ran against him and 10b' bed hiM of his watch, but 11 , ..1 could nut identify him. The prisoner was committed for The two Jews, 'Davis and Cohelz, underwent an, examination, on a c h arge o f ro bbi ng the house 0 1 the widow of the late Archbishop of York, i t ' South Audley-street, of silver spoons.—Counsel for both prisoners were heard at considerable length' who contended; that the properly bein g f ou nd it' the possession of D a vi s , w h o k eeps a silversmith.s shop, and had given a regular price, and he having produced Cohen, who acknowledged he had sold them to him, and he stating how he became po" 5 " sed of them, neither of them ought to be detained - Mr. Nares, however, was of a' contrary opinioi , and committed them for further examination. Monday afternoon, a battle was fought in a field at Stepney, betwee n t w o journeymen tailors, of the. names of Fkllis and Williams, both shop-mates- Their quarrel arose about a fair damsel, whom they met at Stepney Fair. They fought for half au hone, . when Williams yielded the palm of victory to lI'S . antagonist. &great number of spectators attended, some of whom lost their watches. On Tuesday morning, at two o'clock, as Mr. Cheevly, an Attorney, was returning to his house in Broad-street, Carnaby-market, in passing through St. Martin's-court, he was much alarmed at a Wo man panning out of the house of Mr. Kenelly, man's mercer, in the broad part of the court, with' nothing on bin leer cheqzise; she, addressed him, by saying,--1' For Con's sake, Sir pray a,sist 113 j there is a fire in the house, and I am afraid something has happened to Mrs. Kenelly." Wr• Cheevly, at the woman's reques:, entered 1 1 'e house., MAL h he found tilled with smoke ; 1 ) went up into the first floor ; by Which time hd was almost suffocated : on entering the room, he perceived Mrs. Kenelly ext,ended on the Car pet, very much burnt ; her hands were ntarlY consumed, and she' was calling out, ,4 , Water • Water !" • she appealed to be partly undressed , as her stays were in an adjoining room. No persons w.hitsoever were present at this dreadful scene excePt Mr. Cheevly and the , errant, who called him M.' From the noise, a oung man, clerk to Mr. Kett' elly, being awakened, came down stair?., with onlY his shirt on, in dreadful terror, and assisted I''' Cheevly in extinguishing the flames, which bat' comrimnicated to the adjoining room, Mrs. Kenelly • still groaningin a dreadful m inner. The fl imes be ing, by their exertkns, - got u.lder, by which' they both got severely burnt in the hands, their attentioa was next directed to Mrs. Kenelly. The Cleric dressed himself, and went out for 'medical as.igy ance. Mrs. Kenelly died,' however, shortly after wards, and the Clerk, from the great fright, es.' pired in the course of the day. - Mr. Kenelly was, at the time, at his country-house ~~. 1 t c i i ,